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The Italian
Accidental Tourist Guide to Paris
Introduction
I have been living in Paris for
almost an year as an accidental tourist, since I am working for a multinational
Business. Thus I decided to write about my personal experience and the
many different 
and
unusual places that I discovered.
This pseudo-guide is neither official
nor complete, but it's a true contribution for a tourist that wants to
get a bit further and moreover it is based on my real experience.
There's a bit of italian humor
in it, and some remarks on typical parisian behaviors.
I hope people from Paris will not
get too angry about it because I really love the city and its inhabitants.
In any case, if you need a real, professional and comprehensive help on Paris you should go and visit
The Paris Tourist information Center
The Very First Thing to do
....is to have someone with you who speaks French because French people do not like that much other idioms. No Jokes! The very first thing to do, no matter if you arrive at Charles De Gaulle Airport, by train or bicycle is to get the next newsstand and invest the first 3 francs of your journey to buy the only one guide to Paris that really contains everything about the city and what to do in it. It is the PARISCOPE, it's out on Wednesdays and it covers all the Parisian life, from cinemas (more than 300!) to restaurants, museums and also exotic/erotic places. It is written in French but it's quite understandable and there is also a short section is in English that may help. The Pariscope will be you faithful companion for the whole trip, don't miss it and start to check its Web site below
A second choice is given by the "Where to go In Paris" magazine, that is available for free but only in specific places such as the airport and it is not always easy to be found.
Another choice is to buy the famous "FIGARO" Newspaper (7f). On Wednesdays it contains the FIGAROSCOPE, an add-on that gives a good overlook on Parisian life in the following week
Useful addresses, mainly for people that are about to move to Paris for job more than pleasure reasons can be found in the FUSAC weekly magazine, that is freely distributed in any American Bar, since it is the magazine of cultural and people exchange between France and the USA.
How to go around in Paris
Paris has a wonderful network of
transportation, light years from the Italian one. You can easily move from
one place to another mainly using the huge metro network combined with
the so-called RER lines (light trains).
Even the surface is covered by
an extensive system of buses and taxis are the only thing in Paris that
is quite cheap.
You will easily get information
on transportation everywhere, at the airport, the train station or the
tourist office (that is located on the Champs Elysees close to the Arc
de Triomphe).
BUT
if you really want to experience the thrill of Paris Traffic you must rent a car and begin your nightmare.
Going around by car
Paris traffic is awful, tricky and
nasty and even worst than it.
Paris has a lovely network of wide
roads, an efficient ring (here it is called "la peripherique") and good
highways but unfortunately millions of cars are running through it, sometimes
creating jams of biblical proportion.
The
biblical jams fortunately happens only two/three times per year. In these
occasions people are used to park the car everywhere on the road side and
try to reach their destination by feet.
Other catastrophic events are the
closing of the schools, Transportation strikes and each Friday evening,
when I am getting back to Italy and each Parisian is trying to reach Normandy
for the weekend.
The Peripherique is anyway managed
by a unique and excellent system of signs that exactly show you how many
minutes it will take from a place to another, thus allowing you to evaluate
the situation of the next 30 km at a glance.
If you want to have a real time look on the Paris Traffic situation please connect to the
Driving in the city is quite easy,
because the inside road system is simple with few exceptions (i.e. the
one in the above photo).
Provide yourself with a good Michelin
Map with road atlas, or any other map that has at least the circulation
direction marked on it and go without fear, because Parisian drivers
will bully you, and this is said by an Italian.
I have learned some basic rules
that you MUST respect if you want to survive the other cars in Paris and
eventually an accident.
Take the
Champs Elysees and face a complete round of the Etoile/Arc De Triomphe.
If you
survive it, you are promoted.
Why Paris is beautiful
Paris is a beautiful city, one of
the most beautiful in the world, full-stop.
It is enchanted and you will see
it at a glance, as soon as you will reach one of its celebrated highlights.
Paris is huge, elegant, sumptuous,
and it has places so astonishing to be remembered for the entire life.
A sunset or a dawn on one of the
many bridges on the Seine worth a visit by itself.
The city is also impressive for
all the infrastructures, from the perfectly-managed hundreds of museums
to the always-perfect condition of all the monuments and historical places,
starting from the fantastic "Hotel Des Invalides" seen from "Place de la
Concorde" 
to the incredible "Place Vendome", passing through the huge "Arc de Triomphe"
and the impressive and never ending "Champs Elisees".
Dozens of restaurants everywhere
and tons of hotels are then capable of providing a food and a bed fit for
any budget.
Parisians are really living their
city. In the evening up to late hours all the bars and the bistros are
always full of people from any age and country.
Theaters are always fully booked
and the last movie in major cinemas is shown around midnight.
Last but not least the city is
clean, well kept and generally respected by its inhabitants.
Why Paris is not so beautiful
Not touristic areas
The part of the city that I just
described is the one that any tourist will see.
Other areas are less famous, glorious
and will show you a Paris made by immigrants, poor people and slums.
This Paris is embracing the other
one in a deadly kiss on the North-North East part of the city, starting
from the famous "Goutte d'Or", the kasbah of Paris.
The "old" Paris is trying to not
mix that much with this one.
These areas have been beautifully
described in a movie that I strongly recommend,
La
Heine (Hate) by Mathieu Kassovitz.
Weather
The typical question each Parisian
will ask to himself when waking up in the morning is NOT if that day will
rain or shine BUT when it will be raining. Paris is a rainy city and it
rains almost every day (even in summer). The sky is quite clean, you think
about a wonderful week-end and suddenly, in a couple of minutes, big gray
clouds full of rain will convince you that you will spend your weekend
at home.
This year we had snow in April.
No comment.
Thus prepare yourself because rain
will be your usual companion for the whole trip, except if you are in full
summer (in that case rain will be substituted by thunderstorms). Best period
is of course from July to September.
Current weather in Paris in the
next 4 days could be seen from Intellicast
I am putting here all the places I recommend to see, in a disordered order, as they come to my mind.
Some of these places are not so known, and quite out of the usual tourist tracks.
I would like to start with a couple of minor museums, that are really two gems to discover after the usual boring Louvre (the Mona Lisa is not that much, isn't it?) and the D'Orsay (a must-see, but too many Impressionists!).
The first one is the "Nissim Du
Camondo" Museum. The museum has an interesting story. Nissim du Camondo
is the name of the son of an aristocratic family of the 19th century. Nissim
died on an airplane 
during
First World War. The father, Moise, donated the building as a museum but
pretended the palace and the splendid furniture to be kept "untouched",
thus the museum is a magnificent house of the 18th century in which you
really dive into like being in a time-machine. Enjoy this museum and its
fantastic furniture, it's a little undiscovered gem of Paris. Have some
more information at
The
UCAD page of the Camondo Museum
Address
63, rue de Monceau 75008 Paris
Métro : Villiers or Monceau
Tel:(33 - 1)53 89 06 40 Fax : (33 - 1)53 89 06 42
E-Mail : webmaster@ucad.fr
Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 10h to 17h.
"This outstanding museum, housed in a magnificent Second Empire mansion, contains a remarkable collection of rare paintings and furnishings worthy of the greatest museums."
This is the official introduction
of the site dedicated to this great museum with great things to see, both
from the fantastic architecture 
to
the wonderful masterpieces that are shown in it (the Tie polo paintings
among the others).
Have a look to this phenomenal house and don't miss it in your Paris visit.
Take also notice that you must have a brunch, a salad or a tea in the wonderful ancient room that was transformed in the classy and pretty unique cafe' of the museum.
In the web pay a visit to the Jacquemart-Andre' Official site
Address
Musée Jacquemart-André
158, bd Haussmann 75008 Paris, France.
Tel. : +33 1 42 89 04 91.
Opening Times
The Musée Jacquemart-André is open daily,
all year round from 10.00-18.00.
The Café Jacquemart André is open daily
from 11.30-18.00.
The Bookstore and Gift Shop is open daily
from 10.00-18.00.
1999 Rates
Full rate (including Audioguide): 48 FF
Concessions (students, unwaged, children
7-17): 36 FF
Children under 7, third child (any age), press:
free.
A Passage Couvert is a tiny
covered street that connects two places or two buildings. Paris is full
of them. They normally are very nicely-decorated, well-kept and not mentioned
by any official guide.
You should at least see two or
three of them but only a Parisian may indicate you where they are.
My personal suggestion is to go
to Boulevard Montmartre and see the two that are around the Musee
Grevin (Wax Museum) entrance. A third one is in front of the Museum
on the other side of the road. In one of the three you will find two pretty
unique shops fully dedicated to miniature house of
dolls.
Two other
ones are in Avenue des Petits Champs, one is the Galerie Vivienne and the
other is the Galerie Colbert. They are beautiful and they are linked each
other; you can also have an expensive tea at the
"A Priori" Tea House and Restaurant. Not far
from there you will find the back entrance of the Palais Royal.
The Royal Palace is a beautiful
building located downtown, close to the Louvre, in the Place Andre Malraux.
The palace is huge as you never may imagine and normally ignored even if
it absolutely deserves a visit for a number of good reasons among which
the internal court and gardens, that are splendid as well as those of the
Musee
Rodin.
The Royal Palace is also the Home
of The Comedie Francaise, the theater where 18th century classic pieces
by Moliere are played. Even if you don't understand a single word of French,
I suggest you to book a ticket and enjoy the magnificent theater, eventually
having a fast dinner at the cafe in a unique historical environment before
the show. Dress completely informally if you like it. In the theater you
will see a lot of young people seeing the show while eating bananas and
mandarins.
The
Virgin Megastore
The Virgin Megastore, located at
the Champs Elysees, is the Bible for any music fan and one of the most
complete music stores in Europe. You will find any kind of cd, book and
media, even things that you will not be able to find in your home country
(whatever it is).
Prices are not cheap but the store
worth a visit, even because it is in a beautiful three floor building.
In the store, left to the entrance
and downstairs, you can also buy tickets for Paris' major entertainment
events.
There are a number of good reasons to visit Disneyland Paris.
1) If you have already been in one of the Disney Places somewhere in the World, you will discover that this Disney is really one of the best of them all, with one of the most thrilling rollercoaster of the world (Space Mountains, completely re-engineered vs. the US version) and a brand new attraction just opened in 1999 (Honey, I shrunk the audience, althoug a modern version of a 3d movie). Thus, if you like Disney things, spend one day and have fun.
2) If you have never been here and even if you hate Disney things, you have a unique chance to discover one of the greatest place for fun in the world, no matter about your age, satisfaction guaranteed.
To get Disneyland from Paris is very easy. Take the RER leading to Marne La Vallee or, by car, the highway to Metz-Nancy.
An alternative to Disneyland is
Parc
Asterix
This is a place that really does
not need to be discovered. It is simply one of the finest square in the
world, another one into which you will directly dive in the previous century.
On one side of the square you will find the RITZ Hotel, surrounded by some
of the most expensive jewelers in the world. Discover all the secrets and
the history of Place Vendome in its web site Place
Vendome.Net
HÔTEL NATIONAL DES INVALIDES
129, RUE DE GRENELLE - 75700 PARIS 07 SP
The magnitude and the splendor of
Paris are clearly evident when, from Place de La Concorde, you cross 
the
Bridge and you walk to reach the Hotel Des Invalides.
The places you will walk through
are really H-U-G-E and you will soon find yourself as a little drop in
an vast ocean of big ancient buildings and large areas. The Hotel Des Invalides
has a dome with a gold covered top that is of unbelievable beauty, but
moreover it contains the H-U-G-E graveyard of Napoleon I, the Emperor that
made this city so big.
After paying a visit to the Dome
a must-see is the French Army Museum, showing much more than uniforms and
deeply bringing you in the complex and to some extent fascinating art of
ancient war.
Opening Hours
- from 10 to 16.45 from October
1st to March 31
- from 10 to 17.45 from April 1
to Sept 30 included.
. Closed on Jan 1st, May 1st, Nov
1st, Dec 25
. The Dome and Napoleon's Graveyard
are accessible from 10 to 18.45 from June 15 to Sept 15 included
Pere Lachaise is a cemetery. It
should not be visited for touristic purposes, so there's no apparent reason
to 
go there
but actually if you plan to visit it you will find a lot of tourists, mainly
young.
In spite of the excellent names
buried over there (Moliere, Balzac, Yves Montand, Apollinaire) the main
reason for which the Pere Lachaise has become famous among the tourists
it's because it is the place of Jim Morrison's tomb.
A lot of people start their journey
into darkness by Jim's last home, that has become a real cult place for
Doors fans and others. Today the graveyard is not so impressive as before
because the tombstone and Jim's face sculpture were removed. In any case
I suggest a visit, at least to see how many people are there contemplating
the tomb.
A spontaneous contribution to Pere Lachaise and main information can be found (in French) at
http://www.alegria.fr/fr/insolite/texte.html
http://rafale.worldnet.net/~gargl/isa/
In order to close these three-in-a-row
series about death (after Napoleon and Jim Morrison), I must mention the
Pont de l'Alma, that is unfortunately another cult location of Paris, being
the place where Diana and Dodi tragically ended their life.
There
is nothing much to see over there, actually, except a kind of a monument
that was built there for other purposes (it's the repro of the Statue of
Liberty's flame) and suddenly became D&D memorial monument.
You will still find people praying
and putting flowers and cards. A lot of love messages still testify how
the Princess was so intensively loved by the people.
If you have the chance of going
under the tunnel where the crash happened you will realize that
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The Pont is easily accessible with
any kind of transportation. I suggest to get there by having a walk from
the Avenue George V, starting from the Champs Elysees. Avenue George V
is still a beautiful and classy street and you will enjoy it. The George
V is also the street of the Crazy Horse and some of the most trendy bars
of Paris
an
excellent view of all the historical places (and this view is by far better
than any other in the city). The best moment to get there is at sunset
because while the sun is goin down all the buildings will begin to extend
their shadows on the city in a beautiful scenery. Check the opening time
and if possible get the building by then. The usual panoramic Restaurant
is currently closed for reshaping (July 1999).
Before starting to talk about food there are two or three things I must say
THE TYPICAL FRENCH RESTAURANT
Paris is full of French Restaurant and it must be said that they will generally not try to play tricks with tourists. They normally have standard menus fit for any budget to choose from and the selection proposed is normally quite good. You fill find a lot of restaurants and fine bistros everywhere in the city, so if you like french cuisine, choose your menu and go
BUT
always remember that all the prices
for the standard menus are NOT and NEVER will include the drinks.
Drinks in a restaurant normally
cost a fortune, and if you are thinking to drink wine you will probably
have to sell your Rolex to the owner. Pay a lot of attention to prices
of drinks because your cheap 99 francs 
menu
could multiply by 3 only for a bottle of wine and an aperitif.
If you absolutely want to have
a drink before the meal, try the Kir or the Kir Royale (Wine/Champagne
and Cassis).
I personally like to drink beer, and a 50 cl of an average Kronenburg (French made beer) in a Restaurant will cost you 30-40 francs, compared to the normal 20 ff in Italy.
If you go "a la carte" you will really risk to spend a fortune (and get back home with the help of the Embassy). Always pay a lot of attention to the price of desserts.
TIPS ON THE TIP
In France you are not obliged to leave any tip (called here the "pour boire") at the restaurant. So don't think you have to leave 10 or 5 % of the amount to not be killed by the waiter. The rule here is
Understanding a French Menu is also a complicated task requiring more than one year of permanence in the town. You will find herewith an example of a typical 130 FF menu (DRINKS EXCLUDED) with an associated (poor) translation.
| Le Médaillon de Canard au Porto | Duck medaillon with Porto | Try it |
| La demi douzaine (6) de moules farcies | 6 stuffed mussels | The big ones come from Spain, the small ones from the French Coast |
| La Salade au Roquefort | Roquefort salad | Roquefort is an excellent and tasty "blue" cheese. A nice salad |
| La Salade Campagnarde (lardons, noix) | Fresh salad with ham and noix | This dish could be easily done by yourself at home |
| La Salade de Tomate et Mozzarelle | Tomato salad with mozzarella cheese | This is an Italian salad. Eat it in Italy |
| Les Filets de Hareng Pommes à l'huile | Herrings fillets, potatoes in oil | This dish could be easily done by yourself at home |
| La Chiffonnade aux foies de volaille | Fowl liver salad | Try it. You may not like it but it's typical |
| Le Potage aux légumes frais | Fresh vegetable soup | Bleah! |
| La Soupe à l'oignon gratinée | Baked onion soup | Bleah! Bleah! |
Main Courses
| Les Côtes d'Agneau filet grillés aux herbes de Provence | Grilled lamb chop with aromatic herbs | Try it |
| Le Faux-filet Grillé Sauce au Poivre | Grilled sirloin steak peppercorn and fresh cream sauce | It's only a steak, please! |
| L'Escalope de Volaille Sauce Chasseur | Fowl escalope with mushrooms sauce | It's a tricky steak with sauce |
| Le Filet Mignon de Porc Sauce Provençale | Pork fillet with tomato, onions, sweet pepers sauce | Try it, even if it's only pig |
| L'Andouillete de Troyes Grillée | Grilled chitterling sauage | If you have the stomach this is really loved by French people |
| Le Filet de Dorade Poêlé | Sea bream fillet piperadesauce with tomato, onions | Fish Steak! |
| Le Pavé de Saumon Grillé au beurre citronné | Grilled salmon steak with lemon butter | Fish Steak! |
Desserts
| L' Ile Flottante au Caramel | Floating island with caramel | OK! |
| La Mousse au Chocolat | Chocolate mousse or caramel cream | A must |
| Le Clafoutis aux Poires | Pear clafoutis | Try it |
| Le Fromage Blanc au Cassis | Cottage cheese with blackcurrant | Light cheese if you don't want a caloric dessert |
| Le Gâteau au Chocolat nappé de crème anglaise | Chocolate cake with vanilla flavoured custard | Brownie sunk in vanilla custard (so-so) |
| La Tarte aux Pommes | Apple Pie | Ordinary |
| Le Sorbet Framboise | Raspberry sorbet | Ordinary |
| La Glace Vanille | Vanilla ice cream | Ordinary |
| Le Mystère Sauce au Chocolat | Vanilla ice cream with hazelnuts chocolate sauce | Nice definition for a vanilla ice cream (So-So) |
My little tour of restaurants is very limited, so here there is only a list of the Restaurants I personally tried and only few of them are typically French
The Hippopotamus
This is a steak house chain specialized in grilled meat. The food is good but it is the one typical for a steak house, so don't expect to have the French touch, since it is much more American than French Style. Have a look at their menus at
LA Taverne De Maitre Kanter
This is another chain specialyzed
in things from the Alsace and Coquillage (Mussels & Huitres). From
the Alsace I am suggesting one of the heavy-as-a-brick-in-my-stomach "Choucroutes".
Choucroute is an unforgettable dish for your stomach but you can try it
at least once in your life. A choucroute is made by a bed of sauerkrauts
topped with any kind of stuffed pork part. Before tasting it have a look
to someone else eating it. Otherwise have an always good portion of "Moules
Mariniere" with French Fries.
Another chain, again. Specialyzed
in French Cusine, it's a little bit classy but not too expensive.
I can suggest you the address in
Bougival (20 km. west of Paris, close to Versailles, RN 13 - 01 30 78 20
00) that is located in a wonderful environment with a beautiful garden.
This is the Mac-Burger of Paris.
Sold mainly in the Latin Quarter, Les Halles, Pigalle and other areas out
of downtown, the Greek Sandwich is something to try. Normally sold by arab
people in small, one room shops together with crepes, the greek sandwitch
is made by a bun of arab bread filled with green salad, tomatos and onions
and topped with slices of lamb meat cut down by a great rotating vertical
barbecue. The whole thing surrounded by French Fries. The Sandwitch and
a Coke is about 30 francs (nothing). It's a bit too heavy for the stomach,
but you cannot miss one of them.
My favourite Kebab place is in
Boulevard de Grenelle, left and opposite to Residence Orion, but unfortunately
it is quite out from tourist roads. Another one quite good is "L'Orient
Fast" in "Avenue Des Etats Generaux" in Versailles, close to the Chantiers
RER station.
These are Restaurants specialized
in "Haute-Savoie" food. The three main courses to try here are
Small chain of nice and original
restaurant (although a bit expensive) with menu based on fruit (excellent
fruit cocktails and terrific desserts). Sophisticated main courses with
salads, fish and cheese. Really a new kind of thing.
I personally tried the one located
in
32, Avenue de Wagram
m/Charles de Gaulle/Etoile
tel. 01 44 09 02 02
Another one is just close to the
Barfly at the beginning of Avenue George V (from the Champs Elysees)
There are several ways of eating crepes in Paris. I'll try to drive you to eat the best ones. You will find of course a lot of places doin' crepes around the town, mainly concentrated in Les Halles, Latin Quarter and St. Germain des Pres area.
Assuming that a crepe is always a good thing let's start to make the difference
My personal suggestion is to bring home a crepiere, an electric plate made to do crepes at home. They are cheap, original and you will find them in any Department Store.
Crepes recipes and "all-you-want-to-know"
is at
http://www.respublica.fr/crepeman/
If you want to play the trendy tourist, the one that is melting with young and rich parisians, I am providing herewith a list of classy and EXPENSIVE places in which to have a drink, eventually a dinner, and to pick-up girls that like VERY VERY BIG.......credit cards (what else?)
LE BAINS DOUCHE
One of the most famous disco in town. Normally used to celebrate fashion events.
7, rue du Bourg l’Abbé
Tel : 01 48 87 01 80
Other information at http://www.best-of-paris.com/site/tours/yuppie/pyuppie/y1ambainsdou.htm
LA VILLA BARCLAY
Located in the former Safari Club, close to the Champs Elysées, this recent combined bar, brasserie, piano-bar, restaurant, tea room, disco, private club, has had an immediate success when it opened in december 1996. The rest on http://www.best-of-paris.com/site/tours/yuppie/pyuppie/y1ambarclay.htm
3, avenue Matignon
M° Franklin Roosevelt
Tel : 01 53 89 18 91
THE BUDDHA BAR
Everyone wants to get here, to see and be seen, and reservation is more than mandatory. French-Oriental cooking, snobbish girls at will, 350 francs minimum for the dinner.
8, rue Boissy d'Anglas
01 53 05 90 00
THE FOX RESTAURANT
41, Rue du Colisee (8).
01 45 62 35 75
THE BARFLY
A pretentious bar and "creative restaurant", crowded of nice looking people. You have to fight to have a beer that costs you a fortune but you are "in"
49, Avenue George V (8)
01 45 04 04 31
Paris is one of the most expensive cities in the world (after Tokyo and London of course). Compared to Milan, the most expensive city of Italy, it is more expensive by at least 20-30%. Some examples
Things that are quite cheap in Paris
Shopping Centers
If you have time enough my first
suggesion is to get out of the tourist tracks and get into a Shopping 
Center.
I personally know very well two of them. One is the Parly II, located
at Le Chesnay, close to Versailles, the other one is the Garonor,
between the Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris. Anyway there are plenty
of them, all around the city.
The hugest ones are normally reachable
by special shuttles directly from Paris or by metro/RER.
The reasons to go to a true Shopping Center are obvious
http://www.parly2.com/centreco/index.html
If you manage to visit Versailles, I suggest to spend a couple of hours even at Parly II, that is just minutes from the Castle by car and it may also be reached with a bus from RER Chantier Station.
Usines Centres
Factory (Usines) Outlet Stores are becoming more and more popular in Paris, but they are very difficult to be found. The one that I suggest you is on the way from Paris to CDG Airport, on your right, close to the small town of Paris Nord II. You will find an interesting Villeroy & Boch outlet, among the other things....
Keep always in mind that these places are normally connected to the city with free shuttles, so ask for information to a Parisian or the Hotel Lobby.
Supermarkets
A visit to a Supermarket is always something I strongly suggest to compare your lifestyle with that of the Country you are visiting. Supermarkets in Paris are very easy to be found, they are a lot and normally belong to major chains such as Prisunic and Monoprix. Generally one floor is dedicated to miscellaneous stuff and the other to food. In the food section you can buy French things (mustard, pate', terrine de volaille, wine, cheese) at normal prices (better than the Gourmet Shop at the airport of course), paying only attention to cheese, that smells too much in a bag. Surprisingly the same Cognac is cheaper in Italy.
What to Buy
I'll tell you frankly what I would NOT buy first
Paris is one of the cities with
the best quantity/quality/price ratio of the world, thus I do believe you
will not have any major problem in finding a bed fit to your budget.
An average, nice and clean chain
is the Ibis, belonging
to Accor, a Group that holds a number of other Hotel Chains.
If it is still too expensive (or
too cheap) ask the Paris Tourist
Information Center, close to Champs Elysees/Arc De Triomphe.
In any case, very seldomly you
will find a problem of accomodation in Paris, but pay always attention
to major exhibitions periods.
If you plan to stay at least one
week in Paris what I am suggesting is to search the Fusac magazine
(available in any American-related shop and restaurant) for Companies that
are able to provide small flats for short periods at competitive prices.
An address that I personally tried
and I may sincerely suggest is Home
Rental, 116 Champs Elysees (ask for Ines).
You will enjoy Paris by living
in your own privat Idaho, and you will feel at home.
If you are planning to move to
Paris for even a longer period a flat (even a small "studio") is by far
the best solution.
Dear Friends,
if your Company promised you a solid salary package and the gorgeous chance to continue your professional career in Paris, I will try to practically help you with few solid tips to manage a life experience that your friends will envy but that actually can become an endless nightmare for you.
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